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Originally Posted by goodthings
Ditto to Mississauga. Their "downtown" designation from the new Official Plan stretches from the 403 to the QEW.
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It is interesting because this is the third "downtown" designation for Mississauga. The original downtown of Mississauga was Cooksville (at Highways 10 and 5), then there was Mississauga City Centre. And when the province came up with the Places to Grow Plan, the city proposed this new downtown boundary, which encompasses both the original downtown of Cooksville plus Mississauga City Centre, as "precincts" of Downtown Missisauga, and much more for the Urban Growth Centre (UGC). The province did not accept this as an Urban Growth Centre because they considered it too large and elongated.
While every other municipality came up with small UGC in order to fullfill the the intensification and density requirements of the Places to Grow Plan more easily, the City of Mississauga proposed a UGC that was even larger than Downtown Toronto. To see the original proposed boundary of the UGC, now the boundary of "Downtown Mississauga" on the very last page of this document:
http://www5.mississauga.ca/agendas/p...owthCentre.pdf